You’ve heard of seafood being referred to as a superfood for brain health, but there may also be a ‘superdrink’ for brain health to go along with it. New research shows that coffee, besides giving a boost of energy, may prevent you from getting Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Coffee could have a protective effect on neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s a new study shows.

Approximately 500 billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide each year and this could mean tremendous benefit for an increasingly longer-lived population. According to the latest findings, there is a definite decrease in risk of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease with the consumption of coffee.

A research team analyzed 3 types of coffee: light roast, dark roast and decaffeinated dark roast. The caffeinated and de-caffeinated dark roast had the same protective effect.

There is a group of compounds in the roasting process for coffee beans known as phenylindanes which are the only compound that inhibit the 2 protein fragments common in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

As roasting leads to higher quantities of phenylindanes, dark roasted coffee appears to be more protective than light roasted coffee.

Researchers are now also investigating how beneficial phenylindanes are and whether they can enter the bloodstream. But just the fact that it is natural and not synthetic is very important. However we cannot say or suggest that coffee is a cure for these diseases, its protective attributes can’t be underestimated.

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